Details

Subjects:

Maxims, Sanskrit.

Form/Genre:

Tables of contents.
Poems.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Anthology including poetic verses and maxims for purposes such as advice and life lessons. Table of contents in the opening of the manuscript is written by two different scribes and both appearing to be later additions to the manuscript (f. i-viii, 3-6).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 299r).
Written in 9-16 lines per leaf.
311 leaves foliated [i-viii], 3-6, 1-299, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śārṅgadharaviracitāyāṃ paddhatyāṃśāṃtarasevidehamuktikathanakālavaṃcanādi parichedaḥ // śubhaṃbhavatu // (f. 299r).
Dated śaka 1766 (1844) (f. 1r) and saṃvat 1759 (1702) (f. 299r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line.
Scribe is Brāmmasukhadeva Rāmānucara (f. 299r).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Bhaṭṭaśivākānta Lakṣmīkānta.

Cited in:

Listed in H.I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 2211 (UP 1522).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1522.

Contributor:

Brāmmasukhadeva Rāmānucara, scribe.
Bhaṭṭaśivākānta Lakṣmīkānta, former owner.

OCLC:

921886816